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Dude, you're going to shit bricks when you realize most computer science jargon is just marketing buzzwords on top of marketing buzzwords and the terms never meant anything more or less it needed to sell a product.
For example, what the hell is big data? What is a scripting language? Is your DB web scale?
How I remember it is that it's not even the whole dataset that is too large, but the individual records. Hadoop for example is not doing anything magic, it's just a software package to extend MySQL to be able to efficiently have pictures (Facebook's original use case, of course it evolved) as records.
I guess big data is what you need it to justify what you want to justify. In one of my gigs' case, it was public funding for a project.
That's all of CS and IT.
Big data is when we align our agile synergies at scale.
Vertical integration!
That one phrase does mean something though, and it should be fucking illegal.
Wait, so, the Cloud is actually just a bunch of other computers, called servers, and the only real innovation is basically a load balancing system?
Next youre gonna tell me I wont be able to stream lagless video games and also do competitive multiplayer on my Google Stadia, pff, like youre some kind of expert or something.
/s
Negative latency!
God I still cannot believe how obviously bullshit that all was and how many fucking idiots parroted it hook line and sinker.
Google casually violating causality